Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
The two-year-old Honmaru Goten palace restaurant offers a taste of what the rulers at the opulent building may have eaten 150 years ago based on recovered recipes.Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
“We want more people to experience” the historically accurate cooking, said the restaurant’s general manager, Yasuka Kurahashi, through an interpreter. She opened the restaurant two years ago to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the rehabbed castle, which was originally built in 1607 by ruler Kato Kiyomasa.Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
“We are selling regional cuisine,” she explained, using selected recipes from a cookbook from the early 1800s that documented the lord’s meals. The cookbook, which was discovered in the castle, showed the then lord Yoshikuni Hosokawa was served banquet-style meals, which are believed to be the origin of kaiseki, a Japanese multi-course meal, she added.Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Now for 3,000 yen, about $35, diners at the castle receive a lunch of eight dishes plus little tastes of complementary condiments and tea service.Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Honmaru GotenDiners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
- LOCATION: Kumamoto, Japan
- OPENED: 2007
- CAPACITY: 50
- LUNCH: 3,000 yen, about $35
- GENERAL MANAGER: Yasuka Kurahashi
- MENU ADVISOR: Nobuko Hashizume
- MANAGEMENT: Aoyagi restaurant, Kumamoto
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
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Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
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Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
Diners eat like kings — literally — at the Kumamoto Castle in Kumamoto, Japan.
